The gunman who carried out Tuesday's mass school shooting in Texas barricaded himself inside one an elementary school classroom, officials have said, adding that all of the victims were found in that room.
Speaking to CNN this morning, Lt. Chris Olivarez from the Texas Department of Public Safety said that officers responding to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday morning were "at a point of disadvantage," because the shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, had already hunkered down inside the classroom.
Initially, a lack of "sufficient man power" at the scene prevented police from engaging the shooter, Olivarez explained to CNN. So, instead, in order to save as many lives as possible, officers started breaking classroom windows to evacuate students and their teachers.
Later, when officers did exchange gunfire with the shooter, one officer was struck by a bullet, sustaining a non-life-threatening wound.
Eventually, police were able to shoot and kill the gunman.
Olivarez told CNN all of the victims from Tuesday's shooting — those dead and injured — were in the same classroom.